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The Role
Directs enterprise technical program and portfolio execution across cross-unit integrations. Establishes governance, standards, metrics, dependency management, delivery planning, and executive decision-support mechanisms. Aligns stakeholders on roadmaps, funding, priorities, and strategic outcomes while managing vendors, contracts, budgets, and delivery risk. Leads large-scale enterprise programs exceeding $100 million and oversees team performance, talent decisions, and development.
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Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere. Apply today!
Job Details
Summary:
The Senior Director, Technical Program Management directs enterprise program execution to achieve strategic outcomes across cross-unit integrations. This key role oversees strategic planning program standards for an IT or data organization to drive leadership alignment, execution focus, and operating discipline. The Senior Director, Technical Program Management establishes planning and decision-support mechanisms that connect strategic objectives, delivery performance, and resource allocation. Leads organizational rhythms and management processes that improve transparency, accountability, and leadership effectiveness.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
What Cencora offers
We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora
Full time
Salary Range*
$141,600 - 283,250
*This Salary Range reflects a National Average for this job. The actual range may vary based on your locale. Ranges in Colorado/California/Washington/New York/Hawaii/Vermont/Minnesota/Massachusetts/Illinois State-specific locations may be up to 10% lower than the minimum salary range, and 12% higher than the maximum salary range.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.
The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.
Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email [email protected]. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned
Affiliated Companies:
Affiliated Companies: IntrinsiQ Specialty Solutions, Inc
Job Details
Summary:
The Senior Director, Technical Program Management directs enterprise program execution to achieve strategic outcomes across cross-unit integrations. This key role oversees strategic planning program standards for an IT or data organization to drive leadership alignment, execution focus, and operating discipline. The Senior Director, Technical Program Management establishes planning and decision-support mechanisms that connect strategic objectives, delivery performance, and resource allocation. Leads organizational rhythms and management processes that improve transparency, accountability, and leadership effectiveness.
Responsibilities:
- Directs enterprise portfolio and program execution to achieve strategic outcomes across cross-unit integrations.
- Oversees portfolio governance, prioritization, and performance reporting to enable investment decisions and risk management.
- Establishes portfolio and program standards, frameworks, and metrics to improve delivery consistency and transparency.
- Directs cross-functional dependency management and integrated delivery planning to reduce conflicts and delivery risk.
- Connects the dots between strategy, operations, and execution.
- Establishes and manages vendor partnerships, contracts, and performance governance to meet scope, schedule, and financial commitments.
- Influences enterprise stakeholders to align roadmaps, funding, and delivery priorities with strategic goals.
- Orchestrates people management outcomes by setting expectations, conducting performance reviews, making talent decisions, and developing the team.
- Lead Program in defining and delivering large scale enterprise projects of $100M+
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, engineering, operations, or a related field, or equivalent experience required.
- Master's degree in business administration, engineering, operations, or a related field, or equivalent experience preferred.
- 12+ years of experience in technology project management, program management, agile delivery environments, change management, or a related field required.
- 8+ years of experience in a management capacity required.
- Certification in Project Management Professional (PMP), Program Management Professional (PGMP), PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM I), or equivalent certification preferred.
- Uses enterprise portfolio tools to communicate status and inform executive decision-making.
- Develops and manages enterprise-level budgets using portfolio management tools.
- Leverages agile delivery tools to view and manage project and program backlogs.
- Extracts and analyzes portfolio data to assess cross-project intersections, dependencies, and enterprise allocations.
- Uses MS Project to support schedule and status communication based on program needs.
- Uses MS Excel to analyze and communicate enterprise information, including multi-sheet workbooks, filters, functions, and pivot tables.
- Creates executive-ready presentations in MS PowerPoint that communicate complex concepts clearly.
- Produces clear, enterprise-ready data using PowerBI with documentation in MS Word to communicate complex concepts.
- Uses MS Visio to depict processes, integrations, and complex concepts in an enterprise-readable format.
- Uses MS Outlook to schedule and coordinate meetings with internal and external stakeholders across locations.
What Cencora offers
We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora
Full time
Salary Range*
$141,600 - 283,250
*This Salary Range reflects a National Average for this job. The actual range may vary based on your locale. Ranges in Colorado/California/Washington/New York/Hawaii/Vermont/Minnesota/Massachusetts/Illinois State-specific locations may be up to 10% lower than the minimum salary range, and 12% higher than the maximum salary range.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.
The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.
Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email [email protected]. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned
Affiliated Companies:
Affiliated Companies: IntrinsiQ Specialty Solutions, Inc
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, engineering, operations, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Master's degree in business administration, engineering, operations, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 12 or more years of experience in technology project management, program management, agile delivery environments, change management, or a related field
- 8 or more years of experience in a management capacity
- Project Management Professional, Program Management Professional, PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, Certified ScrumMaster, Professional Scrum Master, or equivalent certification
- Experience using enterprise portfolio tools for status communication and executive decision-making
- Experience developing and managing enterprise-level budgets using portfolio management tools
- Experience using agile delivery tools to manage project and program backlogs
- Experience analyzing portfolio data, cross-project dependencies, and enterprise resource allocations
- Experience using Microsoft Project for schedule and status communication
- Experience using Microsoft Excel, including multi-sheet workbooks, filters, functions, and pivot tables
- Experience creating executive presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint
- Experience producing enterprise-ready data in Power BI and documenting it in Microsoft Word
- Experience using Microsoft Visio to depict processes, integrations, and complex concepts
- Experience using Microsoft Outlook to coordinate meetings with internal and external stakeholders
What the Team is Saying
Jason
SVP, Global Products and Solutions
Silvana
CHRO
Paul Fritzsch
Warehouse Supervisor
Denesha Thompson
Quality and Regulatory Manager
Cindy Aviles
Inventory Manager
Denesha Thompson
Quality and Regulatory Manager
Tina Martinez
Vice President, Head of Global Products and Solutions
Cencora Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Day‑one eligibility for medical, dental, and vision is paired with mental‑health resources, wellness programs that can reduce premiums, and HSA/FSA options. The breadth includes prescription coverage, virtual musculoskeletal physical therapy, and care navigation support.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of 12 weeks for birth, adoption, or surrogacy is offered, plus two weeks of paid caregiver leave. Backup child care and family‑building coverage for fertility, adoption, and surrogacy further bolster support.
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Retirement Support — A structured 401(k) match of 100% on the first 3% and 50% on the next 2% can also be directed to student‑loan payments. Additional financial programs include a discounted ESPP, tuition reimbursement, and scholarships for dependents.
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The Company
What We Do
Cencora is a leading pharmaceutical solutions organization centered on improving the lives of people and animals everywhere. With 46,000+ global team members, we have the opportunity to make a positive impact on healthcare in communities everywhere. Our team members are empowered to activate their careers through a collective of tools and resources designed to support individual career interests and aspirations. We value our listening culture that actions real outcomes and our team members appreciate and recognize one another for contributions that are making a meaningful global impact. No matter what your role is here, the work we do together has meaning. When you join our team, you become a crucial part of a greater purpose. We’re committed to supporting you personally and professionally, so we can achieve more together at the center of health. Protect yourself from job scams: Recruitment scams are on the rise. To protect yourself, we urge you to be vigilant and follow these guidelines > https://careers.cencora.com/us/en/job-scams
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